Maximum HD Space - PS3 NEWS

**sirjason** · 06-15-2008

Is there a maximum amount of HD space that the PS3 will see? I currently have 6 1 TB WD USB Hard Drives. I was thinking of hooking 2 of them up to a PS3 so I could do game dumps to them.

Does the PS3 have issues seeing Drives this big? Or would I be better off popping the cause off these externals (since they are normal SATA hard drives with enclosers) and hooking them straight up to the PS3? Is there any major performance speed in dumping a game if your doing to internal or USB?

Thanks.

**Infection** · 06-18-2008

Largest I've heard of it 750, but I wouldn't see any reason for it to not work.

http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-hd...ble-39655.html

**I Kick Puppies** · 06-18-2008

320g for internal. I have read two conflicting points on external. I have read the limit on external being 2 TB and Ive also heard unlimited. I think youd could use the 1 TB..

**Transient** · 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by I Kick Puppies

320g for internal. I have read two conflicting points on external. I have read the limit on external being 2 TB and Ive also heard unlimited. I think youd could use the 1 TB..

I have 500 GB "internal", so the limit definitely is not 320 GB.

What you're probably thinking of is the largest 2.5" SATA drive on the market is currently 320 GB (or was the last I checked anyway, excluding Hitachi's non-standard sized 500 GB).

You can work around that issue by running a cable from your PS3's SATA port to a larger 3.5" SATA drive outside, hence it's internal to the PS3 eventhough the drive is physically external.

For the OP, I'm not sure that anyone but Sony knows the exact limits, but I'm willing to bet it's a 64-bit number, in which case it's very big.

BTW, there is a significant difference in speed between SATA and USB 2.0. I'm not sure exactly how that translates when doing BD dumps since you're likely limited by the speed of the BluRay reader, but I would imagine it's faster. Maybe it's worth testing and posting back here so others will know?

**Tokyo Rain** · 06-21-2008

Samsung makes a 500gb standard size 2.5" drive

http://www.skycomp.com.au/product.aspx?id=107879

**jhonnydadevil** · 06-22-2008

don't you wish that it had a couple of terabytes?

**briguy992** · 06-23-2008

I would suggest if you're going over 350 GB to use an external drive.

You must really be using your machine a lot to take up that many GB's (though I suppose if you're doing game dumps it's necessary)

**Transient** · 06-26-2008

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Originally Posted by briguy992

I would suggest if you're going over 350 GB to use an external drive.

You must really be using your machine a lot to take up that many GB's (though I suppose if you're doing game dumps it's necessary)

Well, if you like to store HD video files on the internal drive (like I do) then you can chew up a lot of space really quickly.

Now if only Sony would add support for external drives with something other than FAT32 then an external drive would be ideal in most cases...

**DarkArchon** · 06-28-2008

Hey, i have a seagate 1TB 3.5" SATA drive and before updating the firmware to 2.20 this worked fine with the ps3 (using a enclosure and linking it to a sata cable directly to the ps3 hdd port). However when i updated to 2.20, my ps3 stopped recognizing my drive and had to revert back to my old 60GB one.

I haven't tried lately with my drive, but i wouldn't hold my hopes up. Let me know if you do manage to get your drive working. Good luck.

**NEMESIS0744** · 07-03-2008

Did you try formatting the drive to FAT32 using your computer? Once you plug it back in, and if the PS3 reads it, it will ask you to format it. Then Format it and there you go.

Hope this help, NEMESIS.